"The Dash 8-40CM has a maximum tractive effort of at with the 83:20 gearing. Overall dimensions for the Dash 8-40CM are in Length, in height and in width. ! bgcolor=c0c090 | Railroad ! bgcolor=c0c090 | Quantity ! bgcolor=c0c090 | Road numbers ! bgcolor=c0c090 | Notes GE Dash 8-40CM The GE C40-8M is a 6-axle diesel locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems from 1990 to 1994. It is part of the GE Dash 8 Series of freight locomotives, and is often referred to as a Dash 8-40CM. Mechanically identical to the Dash 8-40CW, the Dash 8-40CM was constructed only for Canadian"
"Morse code Morse code is a character encoding scheme used in telecommunication that encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations called ""dots"" and ""dashes"" or ""dits"" and ""dahs"". Morse code is named for Samuel F. B. Morse, an inventor of the telegraph. The International Morse Code encodes the ISO basic Latin alphabet, some extra Latin letters, the Arabic numerals and a small set of punctuation and procedural signals (prosigns). Each Morse code symbol is formed by a sequence of dots and dashes. The dot duration is the basic unit of time measurement in Morse code transmission."
"Three Dot Dash is a mash-up of Morse code, used by telegraphs, and the two-fingered ""V"" gesture that has come to be known as the peace sign. In Morse code, ""V"" is •••– Inspired by the late 13-year-old poet Mattie Stepanek, Three Dot Dash is a yearlong leadership and mentoring program that teaches teen leaders how to effectively ""tell their stories"" during the Just Peace Summit using various forms of media, current technology and distribution methods to gain media attention and public support for their causes. Three Dot Dash creates a sustainable worldwide network of individuals, corporations and nonprofit organizations"
"applications. Morse code Morse code is a character encoding scheme used in telecommunication that encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations called ""dots"" and ""dashes"" or ""dits"" and ""dahs"". Morse code is named for Samuel F. B. Morse, an inventor of the telegraph. The International Morse Code encodes the ISO basic Latin alphabet, some extra Latin letters, the Arabic numerals and a small set of punctuation and procedural signals (prosigns). Each Morse code symbol is formed by a sequence of dots and dashes. The dot duration is the basic unit of time measurement in Morse code"
"The duration of a dash is three times the duration of a dot. Each dot or dash within a character is followed by period of signal absence, called a ""space"", equal to the dot duration. The letters of a word are separated by a space of duration equal to three dots, and the words are separated by a space equal to seven dots. To increase the efficiency of encoding, Morse code was designed so that the length of each symbol is approximately inverse to the frequency of occurrence in text of the English language character that it represents. Thus the"
"little point in learning to read Morse as above; rather, the of all of the letters and symbols need to be learned, for both sending and receiving. All Morse code elements depend on the dot length. A dash is the length of 3 dots, and spacings are specified in number of dot lengths. An unambiguous method of specifying the transmission speed is to specify the dot duration as, for example, 50 milliseconds. Specifying the dot duration is, however, not the common practice. Usually, speeds are stated in words per minute. That introduces ambiguity because words have different numbers of characters,"
"in Morse code format, would normally be written something like this, where – represents dahs and · represents dits: Next is the exact conventional timing for this phrase, with = representing ""signal on"", and . representing ""signal off"", each for the time length of exactly one dit: Morse code is often spoken or written with ""dah"" for dashes, ""dit"" for dots located at the end of a character, and ""di"" for dots located at the beginning or internally within the character. Thus, the following Morse code sequence: is orally: ""Dah-dah dah-dah-dah di-dah-dit di-di-dit dit, Dah-di-dah-dit dah-dah-dah dah-di-dit dit"". There is"
"receiving Morse code when it is taught as a language that is heard, instead of one read from a page. To reflect the sounds of Morse code receivers, the operators began to vocalize a dot as ""dit"", and a dash as ""dah"". Dots which are not the final element of a character became vocalized as ""di"". For example, the letter ""c"" was then vocalized as ""dah-di-dah-dit"". Morse code was sometimes facetiously known as ""iddy-umpty"", and a dash as ""umpty"", leading to the word ""umpteen"". The Morse code, as it is used internationally today, was derived from a much refined proposal"
"or dash and absent during the time between dots and dashes. Morse code can be memorized, and Morse code signalling in a form perceptible to the human senses, such as sound waves or visible light, can be directly interpreted by persons trained in the skill. Because many non-English natural languages use other than the 26 Roman letters, Morse alphabets have been developed for those languages. In an emergency, Morse code can be generated by improvised methods such as turning a light on and off, tapping on an object or sounding a horn or whistle, making it one of the simplest"
"Telegraph code A telegraph code is one of the character encodings used to transmit information through telegraphy machines. The most famous such code is Morse code. Morse code can be transmitted and received with very simple electrical equipment, such as the electrical telegraph invented in 1816. Morse code represents each letter of the alphabet as a series of ""dots and dashes"" (short and long bursts of electronically-generated noise). The speed of sending is directly related to the length of the shortest (dot) element: a dash is three dots long, an inter-character gap is the same length (3 dots), and inter-word"
"only. To station S1 from station S2. Roger (R) Thank you (TU) see you again (CUAGN) Best regards (73) To station S1 from station S2: Signing off. In International Morse code there is no ""distinct"" dot-dash sequence defined only for the mathematical equal sign [=]; rather the same code (""–···–"" or ""dah di di di dah"") is shared by ""double hyphen"" [=] and the procedural sign for ""section separator"" notated as . It is fairly common in the ""Recommended International Morse Code"" for punctuation codes to be shared with prosigns. For example, the code for plus or cross [+] is"
"Morse is dah-dah-di-dah, which can be memorized by the phrase ""God save the Queen"", and the Morse for ""F"" is di-di-dah-dit, which can be memorized as ""Did she like it."" A well-known Morse code rhythm from the Second World War period derives from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the opening phrase of which was regularly played at the beginning of BBC broadcasts. The timing of the notes corresponds to the Morse for ""V"", di-di-di-dah, understood as ""V for Victory"" (as well as the Roman numeral for the number five). Prosigns for Morse code are special (usually) unwritten procedural signals or symbols that"
"special signal, , repeated at short intervals."" (In American Morse code, which was used by many coastal ships in the United States through the first part of the twentieth century, three dashes stood for the numeral """"5"""", so in a few cases the distress signal was informally referred to as """"S 5 S"""".) In contrast to CQD, which was sent as three separate letters with spaces between each letter, the ' distress call has always been transmitted as a continuous sequence ""dits"" and ""dahs"", and not as individual letters. There was no problem as long as operators were aware that"
"the form of a short line of dashes and dots forming a Morse character radiating away from the location of the beacon. Typically, the Morse character starts with a dash - a long, continuous signal. The proposal for Enhanced RACON is to further modulate this first dash, with a small amount of digital information to enable either the unique identification of this particular RACON (for instance 30 bits of data identifying the RACON by a MMSI) or alternatively to identify the position of the RACON. Introducing a unique identification would enable enhanced RADAR positioning through the ability to correlate the"
"strings: Note that the marks and gaps alternate: dots and dashes are always separated by one of the gaps, and that the gaps are always separated by a dot or a dash. Morse messages are generally transmitted by a hand-operated device such as a telegraph key, so there are variations introduced by the skill of the sender and receiver — more experienced operators can send and receive at faster speeds. In addition, individual operators differ slightly, for example, using slightly longer or shorter dashes or gaps, perhaps only for particular characters. This is called their ""fist"", and experienced operators can"
"Dagesh The dagesh () is a diacritic used in the Hebrew alphabet. It was added to the Hebrew orthography at the same time as the Masoretic system of niqqud (vowel points). It takes the form of a dot placed inside a Hebrew letter and has the effect of modifying the sound in one of two ways. An identical mark, called mappiq, has a different phonetic function, and can be applied to different consonants; the same mark is also employed in the vowel shuruk. Dagesh and mappiq symbols are often omitted in writing. For instance, is often written as . The"
"and became effective on 1 July 1908. ' remained the maritime radio distress signal until 1999, when it was replaced by the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System. ' is still recognized as a standard distress signal that may be used with any signaling method. The distress signal is a continuous sequence of three dots, three dashes, and three dots, with no spaces between the letters (notated by the overscore). In International Morse Code, three dots form the letter ""S"", and three dashes make the letter ""O"", so """"S O S"""" became a way to remember the order of the"
"For instance, the international code has only two symbols, dots and dashes, but the American code has several lengths of dash. There is a distinction between ""L"" () and ""T"" (). Also, in the international code the space between symbols within a character is always the same, but American Morse has two different spaces. The letters ""S"" (), ""C"" (), and ""R"" () all consist of three dots, but the timing is different in each case. A frequently quoted, but possibly apocryphal, story from the historical period concerns the similarity of ""L"" and ""T"" in the American code. A company"
"dashes if the aircraft was too far and from these the pilot could make course corrections. (The Germans used a similar method with ""Knickebein"".) Various Morse letters could also be sent, for example to notify an aircrew their Mosquito was within a range of the target. The Mouse station sent five dots and a dash to indicate bomb release. The Mouse station included a bombsight computer, known as ""Micestro"", to determine the proper release time, there being no particular logic in carrying the bombsight on the Mosquito when it was under the control of the ground station. Although Oboe had"
"dots and dashes. In modern terminology, is a Morse ""procedural signal"" or """"prosign"""", and the formal way to write it is with a bar above the letters or enclosed in angle brackets: or <SOS>. In popular usage, ' became associated with such phrases as """"Save our Souls"""" and """"Save our Ship"""". ' is only one of several ways that the combination could have been written; for example, ', ', ', or ' all produce exactly the same sound; is just the easiest to remember. The use of the ' signal was first introduced in Germany as part of a set"
"dash is still used when listing an alias after a full name, but only if this alias does not function as a surname. In these senses, a dash is a leaning punctuation mark. Similarly, a leaning dash is used in other instances where words are closely connected to one another and both parts are inflected. A dash also expresses the meaning of 'to' or 'up to' or 'until': A dash is used as the symbol for minus, although the separate minus sign is also used: Dashes may introduce lists. For example:<br> – prvi primer,<br> – drugi primer,<br> – tretji primer."
"This code was used since 1844 and became known as ""Morse landline code"" or ""American Morse code"". In the original Morse telegraphs, the receiver's armature made a clicking noise as it moved in and out of position to mark the paper tape. The telegraph operators soon learned that they could translate the clicks directly into dots and dashes, and write these down by hand, thus making the paper tape unnecessary. When Morse code was adapted to radio communication, the dots and dashes were sent as short and long tone pulses. It was later found that people become more proficient at"
"syllable. In practice the , Unicode U+FF5E, is often used instead of the , Unicode U+301C, because the Shift JIS code for the wave dash, 0x8160, which is supposed to be mapped to U+301C, is instead mapped to U+FF5E in Windows code page 932 (Microsoft's code page for Japanese), a widely used extension of Shift JIS. This avoided a shape definition error in the Unicode code charts: the wave dash reference glyph in JIS / Shift JIS matches the Unicode reference glyph for U+FF5E, while the reference glyph for U+301C was reflected, incorrectly, when Unicode imported the JIS wave dash."
"airway, and flash the red or green course lights with the Morse code ID of one of 10 letters: W, U, V, H, R, K, D, B, G or M. The letters represent the digits of 1 through 10 (W = 1, ..., M = 10). The course lights turn on for 0.5 second for a dot, 1.5 second for a dash with a 0.5 second between each dot or dash. A pause of 1.5 seconds separates each letter. To help remember the letters and their sequence number, pilots memorized the following: ""When Undertaking Very Hard Routes, Keep Direction By"
"at its maximum. While his ship stays in the center zone the pilot gets the (Morse) code letter T (— ""dash"") through his receiving set. If he veers to the right, the T changes to an A (· — ""dot-dash""); if he swings to the left, the T gives way to N (— · ""dash-dot""). All the pilot has to do when he hears N or A is to correct his course. The navigation equipment developed at McCook Field took the concept one step further by wiring the RDF receiver into the cockpit instrument panel. Three lights provided visual cues"
"shorter dash, leads to the advantage of a more compressed code and a faster sending rate. The same operator could send at least 20% faster with American Morse than with International Morse. The greater complexity of American Morse meant that it was easier for operators to make errors. American Morse has multiple lengths of dashes and spaces and inadvertently transmitting the wrong ones and other timing errors by novice operators is known as hog-Morse. Over time, with the disappearance of landline telegraphy, and the end of commercial radio use of Morse Code, American Morse has become nearly extinct in some"
"dagesh with Hebrew text. Here are Unicode examples: Some fonts, character sets, encodings, and operating systems may support neither, one, or both methods. Dagesh The dagesh () is a diacritic used in the Hebrew alphabet. It was added to the Hebrew orthography at the same time as the Masoretic system of niqqud (vowel points). It takes the form of a dot placed inside a Hebrew letter and has the effect of modifying the sound in one of two ways. An identical mark, called mappiq, has a different phonetic function, and can be applied to different consonants; the same mark is"
"were also published in ""QST"", Another example occurred in 1966 when prisoner of war Jeremiah Denton, brought on television by his North Vietnamese captors, Morse-blinked the word ""TORTURE"". In these two cases, interpreters were available to understand those series of eye-blinks. International Morse code is composed of five elements: Morse code can be transmitted in a number of ways: originally as electrical pulses along a telegraph wire, but also as an audio tone, a radio signal with short and long tones, or as a mechanical, audible, or visual signal (e.g. a flashing light) using devices like an Aldis lamp or"
"most common letter in English, the letter ""E"", has the shortest code: a single dot. Because the Morse code elements are specified by proportion rather than specific time durations, the code is usually transmitted at the highest rate that the receiver is capable of decoding. The Morse code transmission rate (""speed"") is specified in ""groups per minute"", commonly referred to as ""words per minute"". Morse code is usually transmitted by on-off keying of an information carrying medium such as electric current, radio waves, visible light or sound waves. The current or wave is present during time period of the dot"
"the elements of the Morse code characters onto pictures for easy memorization. For instance, ""R"" () might be represented as a ""racecar"" seen in a profile view, with the two wheels of the racecar being the dits and the body being the dah. Syllabic mnemonics are based on the principle of associating a word ""or"" phrase to each Morse code letter, with stressed syllables standing for a dah and unstressed ones for a dit. There is no well-known complete set of syllabic mnemonics for English, but various mnemonics do exist for individual letters. In the Czech language, the mnemonic device"
"and Mediterranean Sea) traffic was in 'dotty' or 'dashy' Morse during the entire war. In popular culture, this is mostly remembered in the book ""The Codebreakers"" by Kahn and in the national archives of the UK and Australia (whose SIGINT operators copied most of this Morse variant). Kahn's cited sources come from the popular press and wireless magazines of the time. Other forms of 'Fractional Morse' or 'Fractionated Morse' have emerged. Decoding software for Morse code ranges from software-defined wide-band radio receivers coupled to the Reverse Beacon Network, which decodes signals and detects CQ messages on ham bands, to smartphone"
"the notation """" is just a convenient way for remembering the proper sequence of the distress signal's total of nine dits and dahs. In later years, the number of special Morse symbols increased. In order to designate the proper sequence of dits and dahs for a long special symbol, the standard practice is to list alphabetic characters that contain the same series of dits and dahs, in the same order, with a bar atop the character sequence to indicate that the sequence is a digraph and there should not be any internal spaces in the transmission. Thus, under the modern"
"Dalet Dalet (, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Dālet , Hebrew 'Dālet , Aramaic Dālath , Syriac Dālaṯ , and Arabic (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is a voiced alveolar plosive (). The letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, probably called ""dalt"" ""door"" (""door"" in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door, O31 The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek delta (Δ), Latin D, and the Cyrillic letter Д. The letter is named"